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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop [Novel Impressions]

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:April 7, 2020
Post category:Anime & Manga Entertainment
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This post was originally published in June 2013. In honor of 2020 being the 25th anniversary of Gundam Wing, here is the republication of my review of the novel sequel to Gundam Wing, Frozen Teardrop.

Important: since it’s been so long since I read what was translated in the novels, I made a slight error that was pointed out by a commenter on the previous blog. I still have the comment somewhere in the massive MySQL file that I managed to save, but it’s buried in my to-do list of other things I got caught up in. Please feel free to (constructively, politely, please) correct me in the meantime!

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Ivy – Sonata of Temptation [Music Spotlight]

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:April 6, 2020
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K-Pop solo artist Ivy released a music video for her song “Sonata of Temptation” a little over a decade ago (which I originally talked about back in 2009 on the blog before the relaunch), and it was quite the topic–not just around K-Pop communities, but around Final Fantasy fan circles as well…

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ICYMI: A Taxi Driver (2017)

Post author:Zippy
Post published:April 4, 2020
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“A Taxi Driver” does a nice job of balancing truth and near-truth to deliver a gripping story of a government’s suppression of its own citizens and their inspiring fight against injustice.

Channel Surfing: Pokémon: Twilight Wings Miniseries

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:April 3, 2020
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This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Commentary - Pokémon: Twilight Wings

Today’s Channel Surfing entry is of a new webseries called Pokémon: Twilight Wings. It is based on the eighth and current generation of the franchise’s Sword and Shield series, set in the Galar region. When I first found out about it, I thought it was the plot of the recently announced expansions for Gen 8, and I hesitated as I saw that it involved Leon and Chairman Rose: the reason being is that at the time I didn’t participate in the championships yet, and didn’t want to be spoiled of the “results”, hahaha! Then I saw “anime series”, and had to drop everything I was doing at the moment to check it out.

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ICYMI: The Twilight Zone (2019) Season 1

Post author:Zippy
Post published:March 27, 2020
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I know long time fans of Twilight Zones might find more to quibble about than I, a relative newcomer to this world, but overall I really enjoyed this reboot of the Twilight Zone.

Mobile Suit Abridged Gundam Wing [Channel Surfing]

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:March 27, 2020
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I was deciding whether to talk about this within the Channel Surfing series, or outside of it as a separate post, considering the nature of this next entry I am about to talk about. If you’ve been here for a minute, you can probably tell that I am a huge advocate of the Gundam franchise, and especially of the series that started me on the course of what the franchise has to offer: Gundam Wing.

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ICYMI: Kingdom Season 1 (Netflix)

Post author:Zippy
Post published:March 20, 2020
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Kingdom has it all: the fast zombies of 28 Days Later, the political scheming of A Game of Thrones, and the humanity driven drama of The Walking Dead.

Music Spotlight: Deavid Soul’s “Miller Boll Breakers”

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:March 16, 2020
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For those who are fans of House music or something of the like, here is one that needs to be taken into consideration, especially if you ever owned a Sega Dreamcast. Back in 2008, I wrote about my discovery of an album from an artist(s) going by Deavid Soul, who was featured in the popular (and underrated) skating/graffiti tagging game, Jet Set Radio (originally known as Jet Grind Radio in North America).

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